The mayor of Casterbridge - Hardy, Thomas (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Includes bibliographical references
General Editor's Preface; Map of Hardy's Wessex; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Thomas Hardy; THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE; Explanatory Notes; Significant Revisions to the Text
Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter on a drunken impulse at a local fair. Eighteen years later his temperament again thwarts his attempts to make amends. Henchard is a modern-day tragic hero, but his story is also a journey towards love. This edition is the only critically established text of Hardy's novel